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June 7, 2007

Daily News Round-up

Red RC - Daily Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Falcon Team challenge for Rallycross drivers announced – Link [mirageracing.co.uk]
> Race report from Eastbourne Open day – Link [horizonhobby.co.uk]
> Hot Bodies UK Rallycross Junior Championships announced – Link [hbeurope.com]
> Chris Heath writes his experiences from the Wombwell 1/8th National – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> Report from the latest round of the NSW Off Road Challenge Cup – Link [rubeduderc.com]

June 7, 2007

2007 Reedy Race of Champions – Videos

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The 2007 Reedy Race of Champions is history for another year and it was Rheinard, Cavalieri and Lewis that took the top honours at the events final run on the Tamiya race track in California. As expected the event attracted a lot of interested people and some of these people had video cameras and so we can now show you some of the action from the event. The video above is from the A1 Open Mod final, which you can watch directly in the embedded player, while below are more races and atmosphere videos.

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June 6, 2007

Daily News Round-up

Red RC - Daily News Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Mercury release range of adhesives, CA glues and threadlockers – Link [radiocontrolzone.com]
> Buku Power Self-tuning Exhaust System – Link [radiocontrolzone.com]
> Associated TC5, First Impressions by Tom Watts – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> RB Products release the S5 MSC buggy engine as a complete set – Link [rbproducts.com]
> Xray are Principal sponsor of the Off-Road European ‘B’ Championships – Link [teamxray.com]

June 6, 2007

Elliott Harper wins BTCC Round 4

BTCC Round 4

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the BTCC Championship held at Broxtowe on a glorious weekend and in qualifying it was Hot Bodies racer Elliot Harper that secured the pole position. Harper carried his qualifying pace through into the final and he could go on to win the overall event with a win in an incident filled first final and another win in the second, more straight forward, final.

Read the full report here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

June 6, 2007

CS Electronic Tire Max Grip & Clean Fix

CS Electronic continue to pump out new products with the release of these two items for mantaining and increasing the performance of your electric car tires. For your rubber and foam tires there is this Tire Max Grip which offers consistent and long lasting grip for use on asphalt tracks while for cleaning and preparing your rubber tires there is Tire Clean Fix which cleans the rubber without distorting it and dries immediately leaving no residue.

Source: CS Electronic [cs-electronic.com]

June 6, 2007

Green wins Rd4 of UK 1/8th Nats

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the 1/8th scale BRCA National Championship run under sunny skies at the Wombwell track in South Yorkshire. Qualifying saw a tight battle that left Serpent team driver Mark Green at the top of the field, closely followed by team mate, and round 3 winner, Richard Hicklin in 2nd while 3rd place qualifer was Andrew North. At the start of the final Mark Green started to pull away from the rest of the field leaving the real battle to be fought out behind him. Richard Hicklin was in with a shout of a podium, as was Neil Diver until they hit problems leaving Andy North up into 2nd place until a broken plug dropped down the order. At the end of the 30 minuted final it was a clear win for Mark Green with Mugen racer Peter Hastings in 2nd, 3 laps back, while 3rd place went to Serpent racer Tim Wood, a further lap back.

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June 5, 2007

Daily News Round-up

Red RC Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Hitec release a whole range of micro digital servos – Link [radioncontrolzone.com]
> David Crompton’s switch from Team Magic to HoBao is confirmed – Link [neo-buggy.net]
> Tech Racing release new optionals for the Tamiya M03 chassis – Link [tech-racing.co.jp]
> X-Factory release a new and improved nose piece for their X-6 buggy – Link [xfactoryrc.com]
> Morotech show their tire mounting cone for 38mm diameter wheels – Link [morotech.jp]
> Yuichi Kanai shows of new parts for the Kyosho MP777 – Link [kyosho.de]

June 5, 2007

Gačar Zdenko wins Rd1 Slovenian TT Nats

Gačar Zdenko wins Rd2 Slovenian TT Nats

Due to the first race of the Slovenian off road Nationals in Ljubljana being being cancelled due to rain, the second race of the season in Jesenice became the opening race of the year. In the 1/8th buggy class the event was won by Gačar Zdenko, driving a Laro, who was racing in his first off road race ever which makes his win all the more impressive. in 2nd place was Xray racer Popič Dean who finished ahead of Stare Marko racing a Mugen, who had problems before the end of the race which dropped him into his eventual 3rd place. In the 1/6th scale class it was Rok Bizjak leading home a HPI Baja 5B 1-2-3 who took the win from 2nd placed Janez Nebec with Jakopin Tilen in 3rd.

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